We examine the discontinuous first-order superfluid $^3$He A to B transition in vicinity of polycritical point (2.232 mK and 21.22 bar). find path-dependent transitions: cooling at fixed pressure yields a well defined line temperature-pressure plane, but this can be reliably crossed by depressurizing nearly constant temperature after transiting $T_{\rm c}$ higher pressure. This path dependence ...

It is generally known that severe plastic deformation processes with back pressure not only apply higher hydrostatic stress and more deformation compared to what a regular process can apply to a workpiece but also prevent surface defects in the workpiece during the process. Hydrostatic cyclic expansion extrusion (HCEE) was developed recently for processing long ultrafine-grained metals and allo...

One of the key factors affecting leakage in water distribution systems is network pressure management by putting Pressure Reduce Valves (PRV) in the flow path and optimal regulation of these vales in water networks. This study aimed at investigating optimal pressure management problems so as to minimize leakage in water distribution networks. To do so, an approach was proposed for both optimal ...

Severe plastic deformations under high pressure are used to produce nanostructured materials but were studied ex-situ. Rough diamond anvils introduced reach maximum friction equal yield strength in shear and the first in-situ study of evolution pressure-dependent radial distribution nanostructural parameters performed for severely pre-deformed Zr. ω-Zr behaves like perfectly plastic, isotropic,...

Ž . Ž . Results of isothermal high-pressure up to 120 MPa and isobaric Ps0.1 and 51 MPa temperature studies of dielectric Ž . Ž . permittivity in nitrobenzene–dodecane binary solution are presented. The dependencies of ́ P and ́ T obtained can be well portrayed by isomorphic relations with the same value of the critical exponent fs1yaf0.88. The influence of correction-to-scaling terms for the t...

This project proposes a new optimal routing/scheduling back-pressure algorithm that not only guarantees network stability (throughput optimality), but also adaptively selects a set of optimal routes based on shortest-path information in order to minimize average path lengths between each source and destination pair. Our results indicate that under the traditional back-pressure algorithm, the en...

light-weight and high strength alloys such as al-mg alloys are used in order to reduce the weight of industrial components. however these materials should be formed at elevated temperatures due to their poor formability at room temperature. hot metal gas forming is one of the high-tech forming processes that is used to solve this problem. recent investigation on tube hydroforming showed positiv...

We apply transition path sampling to the simulation of nanoparticles under pressure. As a barostat we use a bath of ideal gas particles that form a stochastically updated atmosphere around the nanoparticle. We justify this algorithm by showing that it preserves the distribution of an ideal gas at constant temperature and pressure by satisfying detailed balance. Based on this result, we present ...